Smells like Kween Spirit!
Smells Like Kween Spirit is the ultimate night out for femmes of an uncertain age, who love a good singalong. Comedy kweens and karaoke enthusiasts Lucy Best and Nicky Barry will lead you through a massive show set to classics from some of their favourite rock chicks. Join along and channel your inner Alanis, Courtney, or Chrissie. Rock out from your seat – or even on stage, with Lucy and Nicky. We encourage loads of black eyeliner, HEAPS of attitude and several Marsala and Cokes to get you in the mood. Come play and slay the night away!
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Unbelievable
A new solo show by Lucy Best premiered at Melbourne Fringe Festival 2025.
Directed by Patrick Bath
Touring in 2026
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Love-aoke
Love is in the air!
Get ready to unleash your inner diva or crooner!
Nicky Barry and Lucy Best are the comedic geniuses who brought created Loaf-aoke, as seen at Melbourne and Newcastle Fringe festivals and Tasmania’s Festival of Voices. They loved uniting people in song so much that they devised a new show based purely on love!
From romance, to friendship, to something else Love-aoke is the perfect singalong night to connect with others over karaoke classics, spanning the decades.
A night filled with laughter, and incredible tunes!
All abilities welcome.
Disgraceful Christmas!
A one-woman show about being naughty AND nice!
Lucy’s solo show, Disgraceful, toured Australia in 2023. It received cricital acclaim and sold out shows in Melbourne, Canberra, and Sydney. Lucy decided to take the show to Brisbane for PiP Theatre’s Toucan Club cabaret festival. However, when she was offered a slot right before Christmas – and even though the original show was book ended with a Christmas story – Lucy decided to write an entirely new show!
In Disgraceful Christmas Lucy shared naughty, nice, and hilarious festive tales of Christmases (plus a sprinkling of New Years) past!
Disgraceful Christmas launched at The Butterfly Club, Melbourne in 2024. Then went on to the Pip Threatre’s Toucan Club, Cabaret Festival in Brisbane.
Lucy’s irreverent humour and “tastefully outrageous” stories are a delight – and it seems Santa doesn’t always check his list twice!
(The original) Disgraceful
A one-woman show about a lifetime of behaving badly
Written, produced and performed by, Lucy Best, Disgraceful is a hilarious journey into the life of a woman who is shamelessly disgraceful and always has been.
Through a mix of storytelling, sketch comedy and music, Lucy shares tales of her misspent youth, her ill-mannered childhood and her evident refusal to go quietly into middle age.
Think Ab Fab meets Fleabag!
Disgraceful has been part of Adelaide Fringe Festival, Townsville’s North Australian Festival of Arts (NAFA), Sydney Fringe Festival , and Wynnum Fringe in 2023. It has also had successful runs outside of a festival, in Melbourne in 2022 and Canberra in 2023.
Disgraceful was Lucy’s first solo show and was produced with mentorship from award winning cabaret star, Tash York.
“...very funny one-woman show… resolutely unapologetic or regretful… Best’s delivery is surprisingly clean… consistently funny…
Best’s on-stage persona being especially warm and affable… slick delivery” – Jim Schembri
“There is a vulnerability and self-consciousness in Best’s storytelling that is both relatable and admirable… warmness, grace and sharp humour” – ★★★★ Arts Hub
“Disgraceful is a funny… in-your-face trip down memory lane crossing times, trends, and continents. Lucy Best does what she does best – tells a story of ‘getting your sh/t together’… or not.” – Weekend Notes
